Twenty-two years after their creation, the Diamond Suites at the Hermitage Monte-Carlo have been reworked by their original designers, while the palace opens Gustave, a new bar by Shirine Zirak set beneath the emblematic Eiffel Dome.
The same signatures, two decades later
Faithful to the Belle Époque elegance that has made its name for nearly a century, the Hermitage Monte-Carlo opens a new chapter in its history with a collection of entirely reimagined Diamond Suites. Twenty-two years after their creation, the “Appartements de l’Hermitage” have been redesigned by their original authors, Cabinet Pierre-Yves Rochon and the Bureau d’Études et de Design of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer — a rare choice of continuity in palace hospitality, where renovations are more often entrusted to new signatures than to the historic creators.
Under the direction of Pierre-Yves Rochon and Karine Bouaziz, this reinterpretation of the codes of French luxury favours elegance over stylistic rupture, a wager that relies on the immediate recognition of an established identity rather than on the surprise of a radical overhaul.
Gustave, a bar conceived for the Winter Garden
At the heart of the Winter Garden, beneath the emblematic Eiffel Dome that makes the establishment architecturally renowned, Gustave — imagined by designer Shirine Zirak — unfolds five distinct spaces, including a new terrace. The bar showcases the signature cocktails of head bartender Julien Lecharpentier, inspired by Art Nouveau and the great Parisian cafés, an aesthetic reference that extends the hotel’s Belle Époque vocabulary into the glass.
Naming the bar Gustave is no accident in a place crowned by a metal structure often associated, in the Monegasque collective imagination, with the legacy of Gustave Eiffel — a discreet way of setting the new space in dialogue with the architecture above it rather than ignoring it.
Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo (Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer). Diamond Suites reimagined by Pierre-Yves Rochon and Karine Bouaziz. Gustave bar designed by Shirine Zirak, signature cocktails by head bartender Julien Lecharpentier.
By entrusting the overhaul of its suites to the creators who had imagined them twenty-two years earlier rather than to a new signature, the Hermitage Monte-Carlo asserts a deliberate continuity — a refined metamorphosis that never betrays the soul of the palace.
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